[_Shorty]

I spent a good day, day and a half, trying to get my Promise FastTrak 100 to work. Then it hit me, I already had a working solution from that BartPE CD I made the other week! So I used the settings I used from that:

[SourceDisksFiles]
fasttrak.sys = 1,,,,,,_3,4,1

[HardwareIdsDatabase]
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_4D30 = "fasttrak"
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_4D38 = "fasttrak"

[SCSI.load]
fasttrak = fasttrak.sys,4

[SCSI]
fasttrak = "WinXP Promise FastTrak"

at the end of my TXTSETUP.SIF and then put my fasttrak.sys file in \i386\ but I did not compress it with the makecab command from here http://greenmachine....ING/addraid.htm and it works. So at least in my case, that page was almost correct, but not quite. The line under SourceDisksFiles is just slightly different, and I had to use an uncompressed driver. I couldn't get mine to work when I followed that page to the letter. Driver difference perhaps. Dunno. Working now though, woot.

Oh, and I made my TXTSETUP.OEM by hand, altering the one from Microsoft's ScsiCfgSet.exe example/guideline files. And I also altered the FASTTRAK.INF file to match what I used in the TXTSETUP.OEM file. I could paste them if someone wants to see them.

[Neoh]

I have Promise Drivers on a AX4PEMAX card, here is my txtsetup.sif
Can you guys tell me if it is correct?

[SourceDisksFiles]
ulsata.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1 

[HardwareIdsDatabase]
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3375 = "UlSata"
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3318 = "UlSata"

[SCSI.load]
UlSata = ulsata.sys,4

[SCSI]
ulsata = "WinXP Promise SATA150 TX Series (tm) IDE Controller"

[doslager]

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for all the advice in this forum. I'm trying out this method of preloading drivers now.

I'm also curious if this method will work in Win2k? (Pro/Srv/Adv)

I'm building unattended installs here at work and would like to cover all my bases with this method of preloading the RAID drivers.

TIA!

Dave O.

[raskren]

twreck,

You don't need a txtsetup.oem file at all when using this method. Txtsetup.oem is accessed by setup if you use [massStorage...] in winnt.sif.


Neoh,

Your settings look right, did they work?


doslager,

This will work in Windows 2000 and perhaps NT4 but I haven't tested it on either platform.

[Maurice]

i did it with sil3112 got an error when installing it, had 1 file 3114 named.
now i tested it trough Vmware and i saw it that he was loading it and no error came

[zhenxy]

I'm not good at english!
Who can show me the files for Intel 865PE-ICH5R motherboards!

[RyanVM]

Why do so many IDE drivers use 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4 in txtsetup.sif?

[raskren]

Maurice,

VMware does not accurately portray how a Windows image will actually perform on your "real" hardware. Your virtual disk may be on a SATA drive or RAID array but the guest operating system is simply installed on a plain 'ol (virutal) IDE or SCSI drive. If you see the driver name flash by during the text mode setup, there's a good chance it will actually work.

zhenxy,

If your motherboard has an ICH5-R southbridge you need iastor.sys and that is all. Its the same file that I used in the article.

RyanVM,

I posted in regards to what all those commas and switches do here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=14852&hl=

I hope this helps.

[RyanVM]

I've seen that thread and gosh's page, but I still don't understand what the 4s are for.

[raskren]

The 4 indicates the destination directory for the associated file. In this case: \Windows\system32. You need to analyze the INF file that comes with the driver(s) to determine exactly where things go.

[aboboo99]

i have an msi 865pe board with onboard sata ports. the problem im having is that msi only has the intel drivers available; iastor.sys
iaStor.cat
iastor.inf
txtsetup.oem. How do instal these files without the silicon files? do you have an example?

[jspidey]

I'm trying to complete this for win2000 but I seem to be having trouble burning the files. I'm using EZ CD creator 5.3.1.154 and using this and this as a guide to burn the files after adding the SCSI drivers. When I try to burn it, the software says something to the affect that the file system does not like the $'s and wants to change them all to _. Any ideas where I am going wrong or suggestions? This write up seems excellent, btw.

*edit - I can't spell*

[RyanVM]

aboboo99, on May 27 2004, 08:02 PM, said:

i have an msi 865pe board with  onboard sata ports. the problem im having is that msi only has the intel drivers available; iastor.sys
iaStor.cat
iastor.inf
txtsetup.oem. How do instal these files without the silicon files? do you have an example?

http://greenmachine....ING/addraid.htm

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

RyanVM's RAID/SATA/SCSI Driver Update for Unattended Windows XP Installs.

Just wandering what I do with the Raidcompress.cmd, do I delete after running the patch.cmd or simply leave it in the root.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on May 30 2004, 01:07 PM, said:

RyanVM's RAID/SATA/SCSI Driver Update for Unattended Windows XP Installs.

Just wandering what I do with the Raidcompress.cmd, do I delete after running the patch.cmd or simply leave it in the root.

Well come on guys does anyone know?

[RyanVM]

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on May 29 2004, 10:07 PM, said:

RyanVM's RAID/SATA/SCSI Driver Update for Unattended Windows XP Installs.

Just wandering what I do with the Raidcompress.cmd, do I delete after running the patch.cmd or simply leave it in the root.

raidcompress.cmd isn't in my pack.

[bonedaddy]

@ RYAN

yes it is
at least my copy of v1.01

bonedaddy

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

RyanVM, on Jun 1 2004, 03:28 AM, said:

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on May 29 2004, 10:07 PM, said:

RyanVM's RAID/SATA/SCSI Driver Update for Unattended Windows XP Installs.

Just wandering what I do with the Raidcompress.cmd, do I delete after running the patch.cmd or simply leave it in the root.

raidcompress.cmd isn't in my pack.

Strange one any ideas? Shall I just remove it?

[RyanVM]

Oh sorry, yes you can delete that. That was a batch file I made for my own purposes that wasn't supposed to be in there.

[Tribble]

i really like ur ways and ideas to integrate personal sata drivers to your xpcd.
but is it not possible to integrate the drivers in the i386 dir or something, i dont like to see an $OEM$ dir on my cd and i dont wanna see any winnt.sif, because i want to keep the cd as original as possible if you understand

im sure it must be possible, b/c for some sorts of raid controllers there is no need to press f6 during text mode, b/c winxp already has drivers for it.

would be nice if you guys know a way. when im back home i will play hardly on that way.